Loading Originals into the Scanner

Load, face down, at the scanner’s right-side

Load your document with the image side facing downwards. Align the right edge of the document with the right edge paper guide. Adjust the left paper guide against the paper’s left edge to help align the document for a straight scan path. Detailed instructions regarding loading and special loading features follow in the next sections.

 Paper-ready LED lights up (green) when paper is engaged.

Feed the original at the scanner’s right edge

Adjust the left paper guide to support a straight scan path.

You can use automatic loading or manual loading. These 2 loading options are selected in the scan/copy application dialogs on your PC.

Paper-guides

The left paper guide can be moved to match the width of the paper you will load. The right-side paper-guide position is fixed. However, the right paper-guide can be removed for oversize scanning.

The main purpose of the paper-guides:

1. Support the left edge of the paper to ensure a straight feeding path.

2. Setup easy paper guidance for rapid batch feeding

To adjust to the paper-width:

1. The left side paper-guide can be place anywhere on the scanner bed. Special adhesive will hold it in place.

2. Place your document with the right edge against the right paper- guide.

3. Adjust the left paper guide against the paper’s left edge.

Scanning oversize documents

You may have a large document that has its content within the scanner’s scan-width capabilities, yet its physical width, typically due to whitespace margins, renders it too large to feed on the scanner bed. In many such cases, you can gain the extra inches you need by removing the right-paper guide.

Removing the Right-side paper guide for oversized documents

Automatic loading

With automatic loading, the scanner takes the original as soon as you insert it in the paper slot. Automatic loading is reliable for most jobs and especially useful for batch scanning jobs.

1. Make sure the Paper handling option “Auto load” is set in your scanning application.
2. Load the document normally as described above.
3. Push the original into the insertion slot until you feel it contact the rollers and the Paper Ready LED lights green.
4. The scanner will grab the original automatically and move it into start- scan position.
5. A delay factor can be set in the scanning application. The delay will give you time to control straight positioning of the document in cases where the scanner is grabbing the original too fast.

Manual loading

With manual loading, you have more control over loading. The scanner takes the original when you press the paper forward button. Manual loading is for single scans (not batch), fragile documents or when you want time to align the document before it is fed.

1. Make sure the paper handling option “Manual” is set in your scanning application.
2. Align the right edge of the document with the right edge paper guide on the scanner bed.
3. Push the original into the insertion slot until you feel it contact the rollers and the Paper Ready LED lights green.
4. While holding the original in place with one hand, use the other hand to press and hold down the Paper Forward button on the scanner.
5. The original moves into the start-scan position.

Press paper forward button

Unloading the original after scan

1. Press the Paper Reverse button to eject the original back to the scanner feeding bed.

2.Press the Paper Forward button if you wish to eject the original out the back of the scanner.

Paper Pressure Adjustment – for thin media

When scanning, the document is evenly pressed down to ensure a distortion-free scan. When scanning thin and fragile documents such as newspapers and trace-paper, you will often want to reduce the default pressure in order to avoid paper jams and damage to the original. Your scanner supports a Paper Pressure Adjustment feature for reducing the normal (default) pressure applied.

To reduce pressure on the original – thin and fragile documents:

1. Before loading the original, locate the Paper Pressure Adjustment lever at the scanner’s back.
2. Standing at the front of the scanner, push the lever to the left to reduce pressure during scanning.
3. Load your thin document.
4. Paper pressure Lever – back, right side of scanner Normal paper pressure position Reduced paper pressure positionRemember to move the Paper Pressure Adjustment lever back to its default pressure position for scanning normal documents.